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How to Feel Joy Again When You’re Struggling with Anxiety & Body Acceptance
When stress or anxiety rises, and you're struggling with body image or how you feel about yourself, the first thing to go is the ability to connect with joy, play and creativity. This blog explores how to feel joy as a source of support, even in those difficult times.
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5 min read


How to Cope With Christmas Stress and Anxiety: 5 Nervous System Friendly Ways
If Christmas, or the festive season, brings stress, anxiety, family pressure, financial worry, or overwhelm, you’re not alone. While the holidays are often portrayed as joyful and magical, for many people this time of year can feel heavy, triggering, or exhausting. Christmas can amplify anxiety, loneliness, grief, family tension, and unrealistic expectations, from feeling pressured to make everything perfect, to spending money you don’t have, eating or drinking more than fee
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6 min read


Cultivating Body Acceptance & Self-Belief Through Somatics & Creativity
When was the last time you said, or thought, something kind about yourself? When did you last judge how you look, or felt you had to change something about yourself to fit in? So many of us go through our day with a highly judgemental inner voice - which stops us from experiencing life with joy, moving and eating to nurture ourselves, or doing things we really want to do (but don't because perhaps we don't feel good enough)! This blog is an invitation to start to soften self-
sophiereyyoga
8 min read


Coming Home to Yourself: How to Rebuild Self-Trust in a Noisy World
What Does Self-Trust Mean to You? What comes to mind when you hear the words self-trust ? Could you pause for a moment and notice your first thought, your first feeling. In today’s fast-paced world, we are constantly bombarded with advice, trends, and endless “shoulds." This makes it incredibly easy to lose touch with our inner voice and instincts. Do you trust yourself? And how would you even know if you did? During the one of the Monthly Somatic Reset Ritual sessions, we e
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8 min read


What does it mean to release "trapped emotions" from your body?
This blog post explores the meaning of emotions being trapped in your body and how to 'release them' through Somatic Coaching.
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6 min read


Reclaim Your Body: The 7 Transformative Benefits of Somatic Movement
This is especially useful if you are new to movement, somatic exercises or have a health condition.
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6 min read


Embody Your Joy; A 10 Week Journey to Cultivate Self-Trust & Creative Expression
Join the Embody Your Joy 10 Week Group Programme for Women, to connect with creativity, confidence and deep joy. Starts March 2025!
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7 min read


How Somatics can Support and Enhance your Creativity!
I'm an artist and the one thing that generally stifles my creativity is being in my own head.
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6 min read


New Year, Embodied You: The Power of Simplifying Your Goals & Intentions
In this blog, I'm discussing the power of simplifying goals and intentions, how Somatic Coaching can help, and a short Somatic practice...
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4 min read


Rediscovering Wonder: Embracing Creativity and Joy Through Somatic Safety & The Inner Child
Getting to know your Creative Inner Child & Rediscovering your Sense of Wonder
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7 min read


Why We Can't Talk Ourselves Out of Stress; The Importance of a Body-Focused Approach, to Reduce Stress and Anxiety.
the importance of body-focused Somatic practices for stress. Reduce stress and anxiety with a Somatic Approach,
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Nurture Your Creative Soul with 'Embody Your Joy': A 10 Week Group Somatic Coaching Programme for Self-Expression, Play and Radical Self-Compassion!
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." - Edward de Bono I am so...
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6 min read


Why Connect With Your Creative Self-Expression? And HOW.
This blog explains why creative self-expression is important to our personal growth, purpose and
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9 min read


What is Somatic Dance?
In todays blog, I want to talk to you about Somatic Dance! I've hosted Somatic Movement and Dance workshops online and in-person, and...
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4 min read


What does a Somatic Teacher and Coach do?
What does a Somatic Teacher and Coach do, and what is Somatics?
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6 min read


Here's why you need to start painting! The magical and often unknown benefits of painting....
I know a lot of people will find this hard to believe, especially if you have branded yourself as "not creative or artistic at all!", but...
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8 min read


The (not so) Secret way to Gaining more Creativity, Clarity & Inspiration...
Our creativity thrives when we feel relaxed, happy and safe. It's really quite simple in theory, however there are so many factors that...
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7 min read


6 Tips for setting up an early morning Somatic practice….(especially in Autumn & Winter)
If you're not a morning person and struggle to get out of bed... OR you wake up with a million things on your mind, dart out of bed and...
sophiereyyoga
5 min read


5 Reasons Why Creative Play Isn't Just For Children!
A lot of Adults lose their creativity early on in life, if it’s not nurtured or encouraged when we’re children. As children, we start to...
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3 min read


Where to start with buying Watercolour Materials!
Updated March 2023; I've removed the prices as they do change / offer discounts from time to time and apologies if any links have...
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6 min read
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